On this day 25 years ago (Commentary Thread)

[Ewan]

Originally Posted by chico20854

October 29, 1997
Aircraft already in flight are directed to land at Gatwick, Preston and Stanstead airports in the UK, where an ad-hoc aerial ferry system is implemented using smaller civilian transports and USAF airlifters flying to smaller (and in many cases damaged) airfields in Germany and the eastern Netherlands.

Do you not mean Prestwick rather than Preston.

All in I’m really enjoying the diary of events and the detail is amazing.